AUGUST 30, 2000

Coulthard tops times after criticizing Monza

MCLAREN'S David Coulthard topped the times in Wednesday's rain-hit testing session at Monza, Italy, despite criticizing the new set-up of the Italian circuit.

Coulthard produced a quickest lap time of one minute and 26.080 seconds to take the honors for the day despite earlier hitting out at the new set-up of the circuit since major redevelopment work on the track was finished.

The Scot finished ahead of British American Racing's Ricardo Zonta, who narrowly finished ahead of Coulthard's McLaren team-mate Mika Hakkinen, who ended the day third fastest.

Jordan's Heinz-Harald Frentzen ended the day fourth quickest with Jacques Villeneuve trailing him in fifth ahead of Italian Jarno Trulli.